One thing that companies don't realize is that often people pirate stuff they would never buy so it is not any "lost sales". Also this way can promote word-of-mouth advertising if people like what they gt and spread it or it can convince them to buy it.

I frequently find myself in an unpopular position in the entertainment industry: I believe in network neutrality, I don't believe that piracy is the end of the world as we know it (I particularly don't believe that a download or file shared automatically equals a lost sale*) and I don't believe ...